Staff Full Stack Engineer, Planning

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Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience building highly performant web applications with outstanding UX.
• Knowledge of our full-stack technologies is highly preferred - React, Typescript, GraphQL, Ruby on Rails and Go.
• Extensive experience working with a test driven approach to writing code with one or more of our core full-stack (or comparable) technologies
• Experience collaborating closely with Product & Design to design, implement and iterate on high impact end-to-end product experiences.
• Experience working with relational databases and key-value storesExperience analyzing, benchmarking and optimizing web application performance across the entire stack.
• Experience leading large scale modernization efforts to revamp legacy systems from start to finish.
• An appetite for unpacking complexity and simplifying it wherever possible.

Responsibilities:

• Plays a key role in consistently advising the team on pragmatic technical approaches to problems that encourage engineering excellence and developer happiness
• Can structure coherent and iterative actionable plans toward delivering effective solutions across the planning surface
• Plans ahead by strategically architecting scalable web APIs, component libraries and backend systems that serve the team roadmap goals
• Collaborate with stakeholders from Data Science, Product & Design and other senior engineers across the organization to identify and solve technical challenges that drive impact across teams
• Advise teams on technical debt consolidation in ways that efficiently service our business needs
• Mentor the team and lead by example to uphold software development best practices in addition to conducting rigorous code and tech spec reviews
• Identify bottle-necks and general system-wide performance issues and offer actionable solutions to address them
• Be a significant individual contributor and a key asset in delivering critical projects that ultimately bring value to our customers